Session created its own cryptocurrency. Glad I moved the Damus Translations group chat to Signal.
https://docs.getsession.org/session-token-sesh
Discussion
Why not Coop? :)
First time hearing about it. But also would like to see some stability and maturity in the Nostr messaging space before adopting more broadly.
what is session ? did you use it?
Yes. It’s a fork of Signal but departed from the protocol to its own. Never worked well enough for any of us. The token is a new thing though.
you spelt shitcoin wrong
Time to uninstall Session.
Yea it is a money grab by the devs. I was a very early session user (the devs were based in Melbourne, AU). They’ve basically forced node runners to stake their shitcoin, after already forcing node runners to pay a hefty fee in their PoW shitcoin, they claimed was necessary for “Sybil resistance” lmao. The concept has been sort of cool, but it has definitely been run through a shitcoiner lens.
Is that the mobilecoin in signal
At least in Signal, it’s optional for p2p payments. In Session, it’s baked into the protocol. Orders of magnitude worse.
I've never had issues with simplex but got signal anyway both from zapstore.
Quite customizable in signal, turn off stories, nobody see my number and more
Also, if you’re on Android, you can just use Molly, which is a strictly better hardened fork of Signal and is interoperable with Signal. Molly removes MobileCoin.
There is also Signal FOSS, which I used to use. But I feel Molly, which I now use, is better. https://www.twinhelix.com/apps/signal-foss/
This was a helpful thread. I find molly.im to be a great resource for juggling different identifiers.
Sometimes I think I’ll go back to android. On my just iPhone right now, feels like I’m missing out
It’s worth noting that when we were looking for a messaging app solution, we didn’t want to use Telegram, SimpleX crashed every few minutes, and Signal did not have the username feature yet, so people would be forced to dox their phone number. Now that Signal has that feature, we can chat with folks more safely. Maybe once MLS over Nostr clients are more mature, we can move to that.
It’s been a while since I’ve used signal. It doesn’t require the phone number anymore?
having a monetization strategy is a good thing aktualy
but that one is a rather bad strategy
Too be fair session was supposedly running on the Loki network (debatable) which had its own token. Then they rebranded away from Loki. I haven't followed much since, maybe they just rebranded Loki to Sesh?
signal had a shitcoin way before session